model-researcher

model-researcher is a skill for Claude Code from danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin. It costs 115 tokens per session (665 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for comparing AI models from services such as fal.ai and Replicate for image, video, voice, and related generation tasks. It records each model's provider, supported output, price, quality assessment, and known limitations with the lookup date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shortlist models for a creative brief, compare technical limits and pricing, and recommend a suitable option for a specific workload.
Why use it?
AI model catalogues and prices change quickly, so choosing from memory can lead to a poor fit or outdated cost estimate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-video-producer plugin — 11 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to shortlist models for a creative brief, compare technical limits and pricing, and recommend a suitable option for a specific workload.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielrosehill/claude-ai-video-producer-plugin/model-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin --skill model-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-video-producer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 665 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00115 $0.00665
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash 13c3efe04be7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/model-researcher/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Model researcher

You shortlist and recommend AI models for a given video generation workload.

Inputs

  • The workload the user wants to fill (e.g. "image-to-video, 9:16, ~6s, photorealistic faces").
  • brief/creative-brief.md for resolution / aspect / duration / tone constraints.
  • brief/tools-and-models.md for what's already chosen (don't re-recommend).
  • Optional: a budget cap per shot from the user.

Sources

  • fal.ai catalogue — fal.ai/models and the model pages. Use the fetch / web tools.
  • Replicate explore — replicate.com/explore and individual model pages.
  • Provider-direct: Runway, Kling, Pika Labs, Hedra, Sync.so, ElevenLabs, OpenAI for models not on fal/replicate.
  • Recent independent comparisons (Reddit r/aivideo, AInVFX, fxguide) — flag as opinion, not fact.

Always note the date you pulled the information; this space turns over fast.

What to capture per candidate

- Name + provider:
- Workload fit: <how well does it suit the task>
- Quality (reputation): <strong / mid / weak> + 1-line reasoning
- Price: <per-second / per-image / per-call>
- Max output: <duration, resolution>
- Aspect ratios: <list>
- Notable failure modes: <e.g., "drifts on long shots", "weak hands", "no lip-sync">
- Provider: <fal / replicate / direct>
- Date checked: <YYYY-MM-DD>

Output

  1. A short list — 3 to 5 candidates — saved to research/models-<workload>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md.
  2. A recommendation with reasoning: best overall, cheapest acceptable, highest quality if budget allows.
  3. On user approval, update brief/tools-and-models.md — replace or append the relevant slot. Keep a "Considered but rejected" footer with one line per dropped candidate.

Discipline

  • Don't trust marketing pages on provider sites for failure modes. Look for community examples and known issues.
  • Flag pricing where the model bills per second of output vs per second of generation time — they're very different.
  • If a model is only on the provider's own platform (no fal/replicate proxy), call out the credential implication — the user needs a separate account/key.
  • Don't recommend a model the project's selected MCP servers can't reach without the user adding a new server. Surface that as a separate decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 52 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 13c3efe04be7

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model-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 665 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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